Mental Quotes

The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

Mental toughness is a state of mind - you could call it 'character in action.'

The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

Love is a severe mental disorder.

Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.

Love is a grave mental illness.

Homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be cured through counselling.

Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective.

Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.

I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.

There is a source within us that always works to bring things into the light.

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

The individual with a negative mental attitude attracts troubles as a magnet attracts steel fittings.

I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily.

An environment of carping and criticism is dangerous to your mental health, whereas those who support and encourage you bring out your true potential and spark your genius.

I love being from a screwed up family. We have everything in my family: prescription drug abuse, mental illness, one of my uncles is a Mormon.

Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

Sometimes it's dramatic, but mental health, as a whole, has to become mainstream.

I've come to terms with it, it knows I know.

I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.

Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is unthinkable and impossible.

Donald Trump needs mental-health help.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Everything has been created twice once on a mental plain and once on a physical plain.

One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups that might help them.

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.

The people of this country desperately need to engage in an open and honest debate about mental health.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.

Your mind is your invisible talisman. The letters PMA (positive mental attitude) are emblazoned on one side, and NMA (negative mental attitude) on the other. These are powerful forces.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense of self-reliance and assurance.

If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace.

It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it's digging deep, it's doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears.

I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.

Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.

There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.

The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.

It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.